Introducing our new students, from left: Heng Liu, Yujing Zou, Risa Gearhart, Sim Singh, Laura Valente, Yuanfan Yang.   Welcome to the Department of Pathology PhD Program, it is going to be a great year!  

So, what do I know about proper dining etiquette? Let’s see… 1.      Always slurp your soup – aim for the sound of an aspirator in a tissue culture hood. 2.      Use your entire napkin and do a windshield wiper-like motion across your mouth to clean it; this is considered proper.…

Foodie Fellowship! Wood fired Za is life!  Saturday night, we gathered for more than a dozen different specialty pizzas baked fast and fresh at the home of second year PhD student Suzanne Bartholf-DeWitt and her husband Greg. He had recently built a wood burning pizza oven in the back yard…

Chairman Jiaoti Huang MD PhD,  Director of Graduate Studies Soman Abraham PhD,  students, Graduate Faculty of the Department of Pathology as well as many administrators came together to celebrate the successful defense and graduation of three PhD candidates in Pathology on April 19th, 2017. Congratulations to Dr. Ching Heng Chou,…

Herman Staats and his lovely wife Janet graciously opened their ranch to the Path PhD crew for an old fashioned Pig Pickin’! A feast to be sure included pulled pork BBQ from the whole pig roasted slowly from early in the morning. Traditional sides of slaw, collards, mac ‘n cheese,…

Fifteen lucky students, faculty and staff from the Department of Pathology PhD program spent quality time with the lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina in April. We received a tour of all the habitats including the nocturnal building, and were treated to watching a training session.…